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...long parade to the graveyard"--or the loss of the plantation, Blanche was impelled by each new bewildering occurrence into escapes of blind desire, only to recoil at her own immorality. Each circuit from reality to illusion to reality has ground her down, left her more debauched and bereft of hope, until she arrives, quite seriously ill, at Elysian Fields, a pathetic figure devoted to romantic melodies, Chinese lanterns and ritualistic bathing, desperately clutching after some final saving grace...
...Totally bereft of money and merchandise, Dante was too ashamed to face his wife Laura and five-year-old daughter Sabrina, who were waiting for him in their dismal one-room flat in the slum quarter of Centocelle. Instead, he clambered up the Colosseum, accompanied by a sympathetic friend (who climbed down again, half-frozen, after only 37 hours). Wrapped in a pink blanket that from a distance resembled a toga, Dante survived a dismally cold week on hard rolls, tea and water, sleeping on a ledge the size of a card table. Once, he slipped, almost fell...
...Parolees are almost as bereft of rights as prisoners. So lower federal courts declined to intervene when Raymond Arciniega's parole was revoked. After serving nearly eight years of his ten-year sentence for selling heroin, Arciniega went to work booking acts into a Torrance, Calif., nightspot. Unfortunately for him, two other ex-convicts also worked there, and his parole board decided that he was violating the rule against associating with former prisoners. The Supreme Court unanimously found that conclusion unacceptable. Occupational association is not enough to send a man back to prison, said the court. "To so assume...
...Unkinged, Richard is most kingly. The fire of majesty flashes from Chamberlain's brow as he rebukes the usurping Bolingbroke: "The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord." In his final scene, as piteously alone as he was once in clamorous pomp attended, bereft of crown and wife, Richard seems a saint redeemed...
...military service or marriages that frequently end in jail-breaks. Even when they look for heroes and heroines, they tend to choose people who speak from behind bars. The young turn to David Harris, Angela Davis, or Cleaver; the middle-aged look to Johnny Cash, and the old, bereft of heroes, sit out the last years of their lives in the jails of homes for the aged...